About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, June 29, 2007

June 29......

June 29 is the 180th (181st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Meaning "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands." — Jesse Helms, former Republican U.S. senator

Thought for the day: "The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1757 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Whatever we may undertake with a sincere desire to promote His glory, we may comfortably pursue. Nothing is trivial that is done for Him.'

● 1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.

● 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

● 1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.

● 1810 - In Bradford, Massachusetts, the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

● 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.

● 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.

● 1875 - The first 'holiness' conference opened at Keswick, England. Keswick conferences stress a non- charismatic, 'crisis' form of sanctification, in contrast to the older traditional view of Christian sanctification as being a lifelong 'process.'

● 1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

● 1905 - Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.

● 1908 - Birth of Cyrus H. Gordon, American Jewish archaeological scholar. Having taught Assyriology and Egyptology at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, his technical writings include the 'Ugaritic Handbook' (1947).

● 1913 - Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War

● 1914 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani

● 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

● 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time.

● 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

● 1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.

● 1917 - W.E.B. DuBois leads silent march by blacks against lynching, New York City.

● 1922 - France grants 1 square km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."

● 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission, Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

● 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

● 2001 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.

● 2001 - Diana fountain given go-ahead; The government announces a memorial in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to be built in London's Hyde Park.

● 2002 - President George W. Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. {This is despite finding his head firmly lodged inside his colon.}

● 2002 - Naval clashes between North Korea and South Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

● 2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago.

● 2003 - Actress Katharine Hepburn died at age 96.

● 2006- The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Cassius● St. Cocha● St. Hemma● St. Mary● Sts. Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers● Sts. Salome & Judith

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 16 (Civil Date: June 29)● St. Tychon, Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus.● St. Tikhon (Tychon) of Luchlv.● St. Tikhon of Kaluga or Medin.● St. Tikhon of Krestogorsk (Vologda).● Martyrs Tigirius and Eutropius of Constantinople.● St. Mark the Just of Apollonias, nephew of Apostle Barnabas.● New-Martyr Hermogenes (Germogen), Bishop of Tobolsk (1918).

● Greek Calendar:● Five Martyrs of Nicomedia.● Forty Martyrs of Rome.● Repose of Archimandrite Moses, founder of Optina Skete (1862) and of Elder Gerasimus of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery (1898).

● Anglican and Lutheran: Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles

● Seychelles - Independence Day.

● The Netherlands - Veterans Day.

● Malta - l-Imnarja

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - ( Sunday )

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